30 May, 2005.

It’s early, it’s dark, it’s cold and it’s blustery. I don’t think even I’m getting the best of me this morning. I think the weather has got the better of me instead though, for sure.

This was the the lead single from the Foo Fighter’s fifth studio album In Your Honor and was originally written by Dave Grohl, in his garage, after being involved in John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign (which he lost to George W Bush).

According to Grohl himself, the song was inspired by the campaign rallies and the mood of breaking away from all those things that confine a person. It’s about not being taken advantage of by anything or anyone, a resistance song of sorts, although most people believe it’s just a good old fashioned love song.

On its release this became the highest charting record in the Foo Fighter’s career, and still is to this day, having reached number eighteen on the US chart, number five in Australia and number four here in the UK, where it has spent a total of thirty-three weeks on the chart to date. It also reached number nine in Hungary and number three in Belgium.

Incidentally, the word ‘best’ appears forty times in the song – just in case you were wondering.